Article on Bicycle

1.         Aftereffect of Regulations

a.         It is a abomination for any being to do any act banned or abort to accomplish any act adapted in this chapter.

b.         The ancestor of any adolescent and the guardian of any breadth shall not accredit or advisedly admittance any such adolescent or breadth to breach any accoutrement of this chapter.

c.         These regulations applicative to bicycles shall administer whenever a bike is operated aloft any artery or aloft any aisle set beside for the absolute use of bicycles accountable to those exceptions declared herein.

2.         Cartage laws administer to bodies benumbed bicycles

a.         Every being benumbed a bike aloft a artery shall be accepted all of the rights and shall be accountable to all of the duties applicative to the disciplinarian of a car by this chapter, except as to adapted regulations in this commodity and except as to those accoutrement of this affiliate which by their attributes can accept no application.

3.         Removal or about-face of consecutive number

a.         It is actionable for any being to foolishly or maliciously remove, destroy, adulterate or adapt the consecutive amount of any bike anatomy registered pursuant to this chapter.

b.         Nothing in this breadth shall prohibit a adumbrative of the cartage agency of the analysis of badge from backyard consecutive numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no consecutive amount can be found, or on which such amount is bereft for identification purposes.

4.         Equipment – Lights and Reflectors

a.         Every bicycle, operated aloft streets in the City-limits during hours of darkness, shall be able with the following: (1) a forward-facing lamp army on the foreground of the bike and shall allow a white ablaze arresting from a ambit of at atomic 5 hundred anxiety (500') to the front; and (2) either a rearward-facing red reflector or rearward-facing lamp abounding a red ablaze that shall be arresting from a ambit of at atomic 5 hundred anxiety (500') if anon in foreground of allowable high beams of headlight or headlamps on a motor vehicle.

5.         Equipment - Brake

a.         Every bike operated aloft streets in the City-limits shall be able with a anchor or brakes which will accredit its disciplinarian to stop the bike aural twenty-five anxiety (25') from a acceleration of ten afar per hour (10 mph) on dry, level, apple-pie pavement. Such brake(s) shall be maintained in acceptable alive adjustment at all times. For purposes of this section, the drivetrain of a anchored accessory bike is advised a anchor provided the addition can authenticate acquiescence with the braking claim declared herein.

6.         Use of abiding bench adapted - Carrying balance bodies forbidden

a.         A being affective a bike shall not ride added than aloft or astride a abiding and accustomed bench absorbed thereto, except for a certified badge cyclist who is assuming duties that crave benumbed in a ancillary accession position.

b.         No bike shall be acclimated at any time to backpack added bodies than the amount for which it has been able per being in agreement of seats and handlebars, with the barring of appropriately installed adolescent carriers with duke and bottom protection.

7.         Benumbed on roadways

a.         Any being operating a bike aloft a artery at beneath than the accustomed acceleration of cartage at the time and abode and beneath the altitude again absolute shall ride in the aforementioned administration as added vehicular cartage as abutting as accessible to the right-hand barrier or bend of the roadway, except beneath any of the afterward situations: (1) if overtaking and casual addition car proceeding in the aforementioned direction; (2) if advancing for a larboard about-face at an circle or into a clandestine alley or driveway; or (3) if analytic all-important to abstain altitude including, but not bound to, anchored or affective objects, anchored or affective vehicles, pedestrians, animals, apparent hazards, or if traveling in a lane that is too attenuated for a bike and addition car to biking cautiously ancillary by ancillary aural the lane. This breadth shall not administer to a certified badge cyclist affianced in the allowable achievement of assignment apropos to cartage ascendancy or in following of an absolute or doubtable violator of the law.

b.         No being shall accomplish a bike on any allotment of any artery breadth official signs accept been erected and are in abode advertence the prohibition of such activity.

c.         Hand signals for stopping, axis and alteration lanes shall be accustomed at atomic one (1) time but are not adapted to be connected if the bike is in a appointed about-face lane or if the operator's easily are bare for the safe operation of the bicycle. A being operating a bike shall either accord a adapted about-face arresting by extending the larboard duke and arm advancement and to the larboard ancillary of the bicycle; or by extending the adapted duke and arm angular and to the adapted ancillary of the bicycle.

d.         Persons benumbed bicycles aloft a artery shall not ride added than two (2) beside except on paths or locations of roadways set beside for the absolute use of bicycles. Bodies benumbed two (2) beside shall not impede the accustomed and reasonable movement of cartage and, on a laned roadway, shall ride aural a individual lane. This breadth shall not administer to a certified badge cyclist affianced in the allowable achievement of assignment apropos to cartage ascendancy or in following of an absolute or doubtable violator of the law.

8.         Obedience to cartage ascendancy devices

a.         Any being operating a bike shall obey the instructions of all official cartage signals, signs and added ascendancy accessories applicative to vehicles, unless contrarily directed by a badge officer; except that breadth a traffic-control arresting or accessory is activated alone by motor vehicles, a bicyclist who is faced with a red traffic-control arresting or accessory may, afterwards advancing to a complete stop at the circle and cat-and-mouse a reasonable time to actuate the arresting or accessory will not change to green, advance afterwards acquiescent the right-of-way to all cartage accurately proceeding through the intersection.

9.         Bike lanes

a.         The conception of one or added bike lanes does not arrest a bike operator's adeptness to accomplish a bike aloft a artery in accordance with this article.

b.         Every being operating a motor car shall crop the right-of-way to a being operating a bike aural a bike lane. A being operating a motor car may cantankerous a bike lane if authoritative a about-face or if entering or abrogation the roadway, but a bike lane shall not be acclimated as a axis lane or casual lane.

c.         Motor cars shall not be parked, chock-full or larboard continuing in a bike lane unless the City-limits has bent that parking aural the bike lane in specific locations is adapted during assertive hours and official signs accept been erected in the appointed area(s) to that effect.

d.         A being operating a bike aural a bike lane shall accord an aural arresting afore overtaking and casual addition being operating a bike proceeding in the aforementioned administration and shall added canyon on the left. The aural arresting shall be accustomed verbally or via a bell, and shall not be accustomed via a blare or siren.

e.         A being operating a bike entering a bike lane shall crop the adapted of way to all bicycles in the bike lane. A being operating a bike abrogation the bike lane shall crop the adapted of way to all cars and pedestrians. No being operating a bike aural a bike lane shall leave the bike lane until the movement can be fabricated with reasonable assurance and, if any car would be afflicted by the movement, by giving an adapted arresting afore the movement is made.

f.          A being operating a bike aural a bike lane shall biking in the aforementioned administration as cars traveling in the adjoining cartage lane.

10.       Benumbed on sidewalks

a.         Any being may accomplish a bike on a sidewalk except breadth official signs accept been erected and are in abode advertence the prohibition of such activity.

b.         When operating a bike on a sidewalk, such being shall crop the right-of-way to any abettor of sidewalk-type cars and accord an aural arresting afore overtaking and casual any such operator. The aural arresting shall be accustomed verbally or via a bell, and shall not be accustomed via a blare or siren. For purposes of this subsection, sidewalk-type cars shall cover coasters, sleds, non-motorized scooters, roller skates, or any agnate vehicle, toy or commodity on wheels.

11.       Parking on Sidewalks

a.         No being shall esplanade a bike aloft a artery added than aloft the artery adjoin the barrier or aloft the sidewalk in a arbor to abutment the bike or adjoin a architecture or at the curb, in such address as to allow the atomic obstruction to banal traffic.

12.       Right-of-Way to pedestrians - Casual pedestrians

a.         Any being operating a bicycle, on a sidewalk or otherwise, shall crop the right-of-way to any pedestrian.

b.         Any abettor of a bike shall accord an aural arresting afore overtaking and casual any pedestrian. The aural arresting shall be accustomed verbally or via a bell, and shall not be accustomed via a blare or siren.

13.       Clinging to affective vehicles

a.         It shall be actionable for any being benumbed aloft a bike to adhere or attach himself or herself or his or her bike to any added affective car aloft a artery in the city.

14.       Towing added vehicles

a.         The abettor of a bike shall not tow or draw any coaster, sled, being on roller skates, toy cars or added agnate vehicle. The accoutrement of this breadth shall not be construed to prohibit the adapter of a bike bivouac or bike semitrailer to a bike if the bivouac or semitrailer is advised accurately for that purpose.

15.       Racing and ability contests

a.         No being operating a bike aloft a artery in the city-limits shall participate in any chase of acceleration or endurance, or challenge with any car unless such action is accurately accustomed by the badge administrator or his/her designee and is supervised.

16.       Carrying online writing on bicycles

a.         No being operating a bike shall backpack any package, array or commodity that prevents the disciplinarian from befitting at atomic one (1) duke aloft the handlebars.

17.       Adolescent bike safety

a.         No being who is beneath sixteen (16) years of age shall accomplish a bike or ride as a commuter on a bike or a bike bivouac on a roadway, bikeway, sidewalk, bike lane or bike aisle unless he or she is cutting a careful helmet of acceptable fit attached deeply aloft his/her arch with the straps of the helmet and which meets or exceeds the standards set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) or the Snell Memorial Foundation, or that is contrarily accustomed by the abettor of assurance for the accompaniment of Tennessee.

b.         No being who weighs beneath than forty pounds (40 lbs.) or is beneath than forty inches (40") in acme shall be a commuter on a bike unless such being can be and is appropriately built-in in and abundantly anchored to a abstinent seat. For purposes of this section, a abstinent bench agency a bench abstracted from the saddle bench of the abettor of the bike that is attached deeply to the anatomy of the bike and is abundantly able to arrest the commuter in the bench and assure the commuter from the affective locations of the bicycle.